Andy Warhol

“If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.”

“I always notice flowers.”

“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.”

“Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.”

“Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.”

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."~Andy Warhol 1968He revised it in 1979:"In 15 minutes, everybody will be famous.”

“El amor-fantasía, es mucho mejor que el amor-realidad.”

“You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.”

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”

“La gente debe enamorarse con los ojos cerrados.”

“Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

“The world fascinates me.”

“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”

“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”

“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”

“Security breeds stagnation.”

“The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.”

“You know it's ART, when the check clears.”

“Interviewer: “Andy do you feel that the public has insulted your art?”Andy Warhol: “Uh no.”I: “Why not?”AW: “Uh well I hadn’t thought about it.”I: “It doesn’t bother you at all then?”AW: “Uh no.”I: “Well do you think that they have shown a lack of appreciation for what pop art means?”AW: “Uh no.”I: “Andy do you think that pop art has sort of reached the point where it’s becoming repetitious now?”AW: “Uh yes.”I: “Do you think it should break away from being pop art?”AW: “Uh no.”I: “Are you just going to carry on?”AW: “Uh yes.”

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

“People some times say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually its the way things happen to you in real life thats unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, its like watching television. You don't feel anything.”

“The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).”

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”

“It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it."Andy Warhol”

“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”

“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.”

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”

“Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.”

“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

“Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth. ”

“When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.”

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”

“everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it”

“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”

“At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.”

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”

“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.”

“Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning”

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.”

“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”

“Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.ES: What, and don't make you talk?AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.”

“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”

“But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party”

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”